Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have dictated Indigenous food and health in North America since colonization.
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The Darwin woodland is home to endangered species and important for the Larrakia people. The development approval requires habitat offsets – yet the minister herself has publicly doubted offsets work.
Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost.
Cyclones, floods and other climate change-linked events are threatening Indigenous heritage tens of thousands of years old. Unless we act, they’ll be gone for good.
Our urban heritage should be allowed to evolve and adapt to the values and needs of today. It’s the best way to avoid neglect and decay, while enabling this heritage to help make cities sustainable.
Sacred trees are a cornerstone of our national identity. They transcend simple economics and sit at the centre of the sacred — sentinels in ceremony, birthing and burials.
Rio Tinto’s own staff wanted the blast stopped.
Heritage is non-renewable — just like the mineral wealth of this country.
Two ABC television premieres – both about the mid-century British nuclear testing at Maralinga in regional South Australia – approach tricky territory in very different ways.
Laws in other countries recognise ‘rights of nature’. But even trees sacred to Indigenous Australian communities have no special protection.
The Victorian government plans to destroy trees and sites sacred to Djab Warrung people to make way for the Western Highway at the same time as it seeks heritage listing for the Eastern Freeway.
The Coorong’s Indigenous heritage is threatened by off-road vehicles and climate change.
Of 19 World Heritage sites across the country, only two, Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta, recognise the values of “living” Aboriginal culture. None of Australia’s three sites inscribed purely for cultural values recognises Aboriginal people.
Development projects are claiming ancestral sites at alarming rates. This ineffective protection of Indigenous heritage is a violation of human rights.
In the forests around the Murray River, Victoria’s Watti Watti people have trained trees to mark significant cultural locations in the landscape.
New research has cast doubt on the effectiveness of scientific studies monitoring industry impact on rock art in the Burrup Peninsula.
Adam Goodes’ actions – from his celebratory dance to his decision to temporarily withdraw from the AFL – epitomise the concept of male Indigenous dignity.
More than a century after he died, the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who famously fought General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn, is thought of as transcendent force – attuned to the universe in a…
The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nation’s attention this week amassing…
In June, the Western Australian Government released draft amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. This is the legislation that determines what qualifies for heritage protection in the state – and…
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
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Cultural heritage, archives and records professional
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
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Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Horizon Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Science, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, Federation University Australia
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Environmental Management, James Cook University
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Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, Department of Planning and Geography, Curtin University